<quoted text>With the destruction of our constitution by the left...I say clean house, send all those hypocrites back home!Let Joe Public run the country for a term, and see what good...good people do!

<quoted text>Yes they are, but NOT in the context you stated!NONE of this was directed, OR condoned by God!Jesus knew Peter would deny Him...Just as He knew... you would too!Hope that changes for you!

And thus the Jesus would have known Hitler would order six million Jews to be murdered, yet he did not throw a life buoy. He supposedly has the power to help, yet does nothing. He sits and lets the tortures happen.

But maybe you feel the Jews would have been spared if they only believed in the Jesus?

<quoted text>YOU DID NOT DIRECT THIS TO ME BUT I FELT OBLIGATED TO GIVE YOU AN ANSWER!Why does God permit suffering?Who really is to blame for it?Humans are to blame for much of the suffering. They fight wars, commit crimes, pollute the environment, often carry on business in a manner motivated by greed rather than concern for their fellowman, and sometimes indulge in habits that they know can be harmful to their health. When they do these things, they hurt others and themselves. Should it be expected that humans would be immune to the consequences of what they do?(Gal. 6:7; Prov. 1:30-33) Is it reasonable to blame God for these things that humans themselves do?Satan and his demons also share responsibility. The Bible discloses that much suffering is because of the influence of wicked spirits. The suffering for which so many people blame God does not come from him at all.—Rev. 12:12; Acts 10:38;How did suffering get started? Examination of the causes focuses attention on our first human parents, Adam and Eve. Jehovah God created them perfect and put them in paradise surroundings. If they had obeyed God, they would never have got sick or died. They could have enjoyed perfect human life forever. Suffering was not part of Jehovah’s purpose for mankind. But Jehovah clearly told Adam that continued enjoyment of what He had given them depended on obedience. Obviously, they had to breathe, eat, drink, and sleep in order to continue living. And they had to keep God’s moral requirements in order to enjoy life fully and to be favored with such life forever. But they chose to go their own way, to set their own standards of good and bad, and thus they turned away from God, the Life-Giver.(Gen. 2:16, 17; 3:1-6) Sin led to death. It was as sinners that Adam and Eve produced children, and they could not pass on to their children what they no longer had. All were born in sin, with inclinations toward wrongdoing, weaknesses that could lead to illness, a sinful inheritance that would eventually result in death. Because everyone on earth today was born in sin, all of us experience suffering in various ways.—Gen. 8:21; Rom. 5:12.Ecclesiastes 9:11 says that “time and unforeseen occurrence” also have a bearing on what happens to us. We may get hurt, not because the Devil directly causes it or because any human does it, but because by chance we are in a place at the wrong moment.

Horse Puckey Doo Doo..... Devoid of logic ....

If Adam and Eve could have lived forever why would they need to eat, drink, sleep to live? Adam eats from the tree of knowledge so from that point forward god allows anyone to beat a babies head against a rock if they want too... He's all powerful yet has angels and satan turn against him and he has to sit back and let them have their way until sometime in the future were he has to have some big earth shattering battle to destroy satan and him minions instead of a wave of the hand or blink of the eye to make them go pooof...

You story is for children that think the easter bunny hides eggs in the grass, The tooth fairy leave a coin under the pillow, santa shrinks and comes down the chimney and flying unicorns fly about pooping glitter, and there are pots of gold at the end of rainbows.... Not for grown adults with functioning minds....

<quoted text>The Penis was made before the medical devices..."Were you trying to say that if I watch porn, lie or steal, That I am evil or vile?"Yes!None Good, no NOT one!If you support porn, you support the evil that causes rapes, and cheating!You cannot swim in the sewer, and smell like a rose!

Well technically, rape and cheating came long before porn. Just ask King David.

From what I understand, countries that have legal prostitution have lower percentages of rape. Both may be of an evil, so to speak, but the lesser evil might just be overall better for a civil society. Utopia cannot exist.

<quoted text>Horse Puckey Doo Doo..... Devoid of logic ....If Adam and Eve could have lived forever why would they need to eat, drink, sleep to live? Adam eats from the tree of knowledge so from that point forward god allows anyone to beat a babies head against a rock if they want too... He's all powerful yet has angels and satan turn against him and he has to sit back and let them have their way until sometime in the future were he has to have some big earth shattering battle to destroy satan and him minions instead of a wave of the hand or blink of the eye to make them go pooof...You story is for children that think the easter bunny hides eggs in the grass, The tooth fairy leave a coin under the pillow, santa shrinks and comes down the chimney and flying unicorns fly about pooping glitter, and there are pots of gold at the end of rainbows.... Not for grown adults with functioning minds....

The moral of the story is, knowledge is not good to seek. Do not lust for knowledge. Stay ignorant and just blindly believe.

Believe it or not, I am not saying this sarcastically. I am quite sure this is what was meant by this, seeking of knowledge, on this forbidden metaphorical tree.

In other words, do not look to natural science for answers, just keep the blind faith that god did it, as the myth claims.

<quoted text>We hope that some day, your "Do not know" turns into "I do know", as ours has!

Hows that Hope and Change working out for you...

I would say "I Think I Know" when a few pieces of Verifiable, Reproducible, Testable Evidence is presented... It would take a Lot of Verifiable, Reproducible, Testable Evidence to move me to the "I Know" position... Even if I became delusional and saw a flying unicorn going overhead while colorful glitter rained down on my head it would require testing of the glitter, verification of the mythical beast by assorted methodologies and observation of it's repeated appearance by non biased observers....

Being Intellectually Honest with oneself is a hallmark of mental maturity...

<quoted text>Nope, that was just opinion, and my freedom of personal reading preferences.Do you believe in freedom of peoples personal choices in choosing what to read or what not to read, or don't you?

<quoted text>Actually, YES continually insulting, as well harassing,stalking etc etc--- others--- IS terrorising.Verb 1. terrorize - coerce by violence or with threatsterror, to force, hale, pressure, squeeze - to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"Which ALSO is similarly the same as (via thesaurus) to"bullying"-1. a quarrelsome, overbearing person who badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.To treat in an overbearing or intimidating manner. See Synonyms at intimidate.2. To make (one's way) aggressively.v.intr.1. To behave like a bully.1. a quarrelsome, overbearing person who badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.a. a pimp.v.t.4. to intimidate or terrorize.v.i.5. to be loudly arrogant and overbearing.adj.Is there some reason you terrorize others whose beliefs might differ from yours, but who are doing nothing wrong and mean you no harm??

So you think my approach to this debate of ideas is to aggressive thus I am a terrorist? And yet somehow equating aspects of religion to terrorism is outrageous?

The contradictions and hypocrisy never stop with you guys. I guess pointing that out makes me a bully.

<quoted text>Actually, YES continually insulting, as well harassing,stalking etc etc--- others--- IS terrorising.Verb 1. terrorize - coerce by violence or with threatsterror, to force, hale, pressure, squeeze - to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information"Which ALSO is similarly the same as (via thesaurus) to"bullying"-1. a quarrelsome, overbearing person who badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.To treat in an overbearing or intimidating manner. See Synonyms at intimidate.2. To make (one's way) aggressively.v.intr.1. To behave like a bully.1. a quarrelsome, overbearing person who badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people.a. a pimp.v.t.4. to intimidate or terrorize.v.i.5. to be loudly arrogant and overbearing.adj.Is there some reason you terrorize others whose beliefs might differ from yours, but who are doing nothing wrong and mean you no harm??

I can't even get a straight answer out of you guys, so I guess I am not really squeezing that hard. Maybe I should use threats of hell or some tactic like this.

And again, I think you and your kind are doing harm, yet you continue to portend you and your kind are harmless. Doing harm in ignorance is not making me feel any better about the harm I see here.

YaA repeatedly claims homosexuals will go to hell. Do you see terrorism in this claim? Is this a harmless claim?

<quoted text>Imagine some of the posters here (and I'm going to actually exlcude YaA from the scenario because he doesn't exhibit the bully, terrorist, know it all, condescending type vitriol that some others do), attending as guests, a consortium of physics professionals at CERN...the guests spewing their ignorance in the usual ill-manner.Can you imagine some of the looks (at the very least) on some of the REAL professionals faces?

YaA claims to "know" homosexuals will go to hell, as well as all of us "tard" non believers, yet he is somehow excluded? Talk about double standards.

<quoted text>I think some of you try and use that blame card as some sort of ace in the hole trump card.Nope..that one doesn't work so good when anyone considers all the "free choice, free will" imperfection and NON immortality of people in general..That's just poor game of life conceptual skills dude...might want to read some instructions lol.

It just contradicts what we see as what would be a moral god. I get you guys have a whole back story made up to answer for the lack of a god helping. You had to have such answers in order to calm the masses who doubted the viability of this claimed god. It shut some people up from questioning. It did not shut us all up, as it is a poor answer. A god that could help, yet does not help, is not a moral being. Sure, it is just my opinion, but my opinion is what I use to determine if a god is real or not.

<quoted text>That Atheists have serious mental issues has been confirmed by various Independent Studies .As an aside; The postings by Atheists serve to confirm the validity of said studies.Blaming others for having caused your mental problems does not resolve this very serious problem.Denial is never the solution to real life problems

Atheists sometimes do have mental issues, just as theists sometimes do. It is as if we humans were not made perfectly at all. It is as if nature haphazardly evolved us.

<quoted text>I'm thinking I'm NOT exaggerating. Read on....Post #70585 02/17/12Mike Duquette wrote:<quoted text>If god commanded you to kill your child, would you?I am sure you will avoid this question.<end quote>Yaa answered:Are you sure?I would make sure it WAS God first, and Knowing His will, Ireally doubt it would be my God, more like your god!Then, it would probably be like an Abrahamic test, as I would do exactlywhat God requested!

Did you have that saved on your computer all this time or did you look this up?

Thanks for proving beyond a shadow of a doubt the claim of YaA being willing to kill his children for his god is no exaggeration.

And yet somehow the claims of blind faith with terrorism, being tied to the same fundamental concepts of YaA and others here is being claimed as terrorism itself.

YaA seems sure that god told him Obama is evil. Now should we be at ease with how YaA checks to see if the god is really his god?

<quoted text>That could very well be. Smaller temples were successively constructed over the tops of older ones which resulted in the mound structures. Copycat cultures could have written their own mythos around the megaliths or the original civilization decayed (due to climactic, environmental or cultural changes, as seen in other regions and examples?) and lost the capacity to build on previous scales.As with Puma Punku, later inhabitants might have paid homage to previous builders' architecture, but lacked the ability to replicate the construction techniques.

I enjoy reading your thoughts on this subject and would love to see you elaborate more.

<quoted text>So king David was not forgiven of his murder? Kind of messes with your previous claims of him having pure blood(whatever that means). Seems you have been caught in yet another contradiction.

No. He was pardoned, meaning he still had to face punishment for his sin. One way was that he was not allowed to build the temple of God, which was one of his greatest desires. This was given to his son Solomon to complete.

<quoted text>So king David was not forgiven of his murder? Kind of messes with your previous claims of him having pure blood(whatever that means). Seems you have been caught in yet another contradiction.

Yet another?

What were the others? Are you just making a general untrue statement to try to discredit me just because you still do not understand scriptures?

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